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Psalms 68
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1(69) For the end, [a Psalm] of David, for alternate [strains]. Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.
1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
2I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.
2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3I am weary [of] crying, my throat has become hoarse; my eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.
3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away.
4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
5O God, you know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from you.
5God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.
6Let not them that wait on you , O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek you, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel.
6Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
7For I have suffered reproach for your sake; shame has covered my face.
7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
8I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.
8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
9For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.
9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.
10When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
11And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.
11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
12They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.
12Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
13But I [will cry] to you, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
13But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
14Save me from the mire, that I stick not [in it]: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.
14Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.
15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
16Hear me, O Lord; for your mercy is good: according to the multitude of your compassions look upon me.
16Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
17And turn not away your face from your servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily.
17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
18Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
18Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
19For you know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before you.
19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
20My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none.
20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
21They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.
21They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.
22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
23Let their eyes be darkenedthat they should not see; and bow down their back continually .
23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.
24Pour out your wrath upon them, and let the fury of your anger take hold on them.
24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
25Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:
25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
26Because they persecuted him whom you have struck; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
27Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into your righteousness.
27Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
29I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of your countenance has helped me.
29But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
30I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;
30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31and [this] shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.
31It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
32Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you⌃ shall live.
32The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
33For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nothing his fettered ones.
33For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
34Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them.
34Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
35For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and [men] shall dwell there, and inherit it.
35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
36And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
36The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.